Senior Platform Engineer

About the Job: 

As a Platform Engineer, you will help us extend and scale LaunchDarkly's engineering and product infrastructure. You will build platform tools and leverage innovative cloud technology to bring joy to your end users - LaunchDarkly developers. You are a builder that’s passionate about multiplying our engineering force through automation, cloud technologies, and productivity tools, which enhance the developer experience.

LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and Twitter, and you'll have an immediate impact with our product and customers.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement in their development lifecycle, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) building blocks for consistent provisioning.

• Seek out and identify opportunities in the tooling, pipelines, and feedback mechanisms to improve developer productivity.

• Design, build, and implement automated tools for scaffolding a new service including dependent infrastructure, code repositories, CI/CD workflows, and observability.

• Maintain solid connection through high engagement with other product delivery engineers to anticipate changes around the corner and contribute your ideas to developing proactive solutions.

• Use your infrastructure and systems engineering skills to contribute code, perform code reviews, and create technical designs that improve the efficiency and reliability of our delivery systems.

• Troubleshoot and resolve delivery pipeline issues to ensure a reliable release process.

• Keep up-to-date with platform engineering industry trends and emerging technologies.

Qualifications:

• Have previously worked in a SRE, platform engineer, product engineer, systems engineer, or developer productivity engineer role.

• You possess excellent communication and collaboration skills. You play well on a small, tight-knit team.

• You are a self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve hard problems and work independently when necessary. You identify potential problems and nip them in the bud before they surface.

• You are a driver of large complex technical projects involving multiple stakeholders and moving them successfully to completion.

• You have a passion for reducing toil for yourself and your colleagues, and love solving problems with scripts and automation (e.g. with Python and Bash).

• You have successfully run large-scale production systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• You are familiar with running systems with a distributed service-oriented architecture. This includes operating tools and platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Istio, and AWS ECS.

• You have extensive experience codifying infrastructure with tools like Terraform and other configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

• You have deep experience with the full lifecycle of software delivery from local development to production and can create solutions in these areas to reduce developer friction.

• You have strong proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Spinnaker, and ArgoCD.

• You have written software in languages like Go or Python.

About LaunchDarkly:

Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. 

The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:

• Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
• Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
• Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
• Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
• Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability

At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com. 

One of our company values is 'Widen the Circle'. Which means we seek out diversity of perspectives to get better results. We understand everyone has their own unique talents and experiences. We encourage you to apply to this role even if you don’t think you meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above. We can find out together if it's the right match for your skillset.

Learn more about the interview process & what it’s like to work with LaunchDarkly's Product Delivery team!

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